As today sees the birthday of B52’s founder, Cindy Wilson, we have an excuse to sing about musical shellfish …

And with this thought from Zero Mostel …

“And they always manage to hang you for having an interpretation. Isn’t [the theater] where your imagination should flower? Why must it always be dull as shit?”

Zero Mostel, February 28, 1915 – September 8, 1977

Enjoy your day.

* Sorry about That, Debbi: but I’m going to have to verify the one it won, if that’s ok … ? And yes, contacting me is fine: but here’s the comment I left you, on yesterday’s teaser …

Those are USUALLY pretty good, I’m told, the 121 training.

Of course you can discuss it: whether I’ll be much help, I don’t know, although I’ll try.

But there’s a question or two: when you say ‘didn’t transfer over as well as they should’, what exactly do you mean … ? I’m ASSUMING you mean you’ve lost some photos in the transfer … ? (If the photos look like they’ve lost quality, that’s probably down to how OS X renders photos: the better the photo in the first place, the better it’ll look.)

QUITE what could’ve happened there, I’m not too sure. The last time I transferred photos — from my old G4 to Bruce, the Mini I’ve currently got — I did the transfer myself. I put all the photos on to a couple of blank DVDs, and, when I set up Bruce, dragged them from the DVDs, into the iPhoto library.

The same with the few songs I had in my iTunes library: I lost one or two in the process: but nothing irreplaceable.

These days, it’s all a bit different. My iPhoto library is on my external hard drive: all I’d have to do to transfer them over is plug the drive into the new machine.

I haven’t yet: but I could ALSO do the same with my iTunes Library.

The few films and TV show episode I bought through iTunes are stored on Apples iCloud service: I can access them anywhere I choose.

From where I’m sitting, though … ? I would have — in your shoes — transferred the lot to an external thumb drive, then copied them over onto my new machine.THAT way, any that didn’t copy … ? I could copy them, again and retry.

JUST so I know, though: what EXACTLY happened with your old machine … ?

The reason I ask is that — if you still have it — I’d still switch it on, work out which photos and songs didn’t make over: then copy them from your old machine to a flash drive, and plug the flash drive into your new Mac. You should be able to copy them into your iTunes and iPhoto library. (As an extra thought … ? Anything you’ve purchased from iTunes should still be available, through iCloud. Any you originally imported from CD, won’t be, though: you may need to re-import them.)

† Oh, I think that’s good old fashioned US history, Debbie. The USA famously fought a war of independence against an incredibly evil, bloated, corrupt, deprived, oppressive empire: the British empire. I think that’s left its mark. Anytime the USA needs a baddie in a film‡ or TV show … ? He’s got an English accent and a red coat …

‡ Oh, Star Wars is a classic, there, Debbi: the baddies, bar Darth Vader, all have English accents. And as he was turned bad by the Emperor, he doesn’t count. (I also think it’s why the US generally prefers coffee to tea: the Boston Tea Party … )